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The idea that a test should only reveal innate aptitude reflects a grab-bag of pseudoscientific assumptions. Spartan, why do you think that some singular, immutable "aptitude" has to exist, anyway?
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<p>I'm not standing up for Spartan, but you're ridiculing him unfairly. It may in fact be the case that no general intelligence factor exists, and that's a valid opinion. But so is the opposite, and it's hardly "a grab-bag of pseudoscientific assumptions." An excellent case in favor of g can be found [url=<a href="http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/%7Ereingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/~reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>What Spartan said was clearly insulting, but your criticism goes into grounds that are just as intellectually unfair.</p>